Top 100 AI · France
François Chollet
Ndea 
- Score
- 8,409+7 today
- Rank
- 26/198 =
- over 90 days
- +76+0.9%
François Chollet is a prominent AI researcher and the creator of Keras, a widely-used deep learning framework. He co-founded NDEA and ARC Prize, focusing on advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI). His online presence primarily revolves around sharing insights on AI development, model performance, and the future of technology.
Data as of Oct 25, 2026.
The raw numbers · last 90 days
- Median views
- 81.4K
- per post
- Median engagements
- 893
- per post
- Posts
- 95
- over 90 days
- Followers
- 752.8K
- all scored platforms
What drives the score
Percentiles 0–100 against all tracked creators.
- Reach · 30%91
Average views per post over 90 days
- Engagement · 30%80
Average reactions per post
- Audience · 30%94
Total followers, relative to population
- Consistency · 10%100
Posting frequency (25 posts / 90 days = 100)
Platforms
752.8K total followers
| Platform | Followers | Score |
|---|---|---|
| X@fchollet | 750.9K | 10,953t1 |
| LinkedIn@fchollet | 1.9K | 178t10 |
Last 30 days
Chollet's top posts
- X · 12 days ago#1
String theory is what happens when an intelligent system is starved of sensory input and starts hallucinating. Intelligence needs grounding. For this reason, intelligence is practically never the bottleneck to solving…
FCFrançois Chollet5.5M views13.3K engagements
- X · 11 days ago#2
Everyone wants to have solved a hard problem, but almost nobody wants to live inside the grind of actually solving it. The breakthroughs belong to the few who are obsessed with the process, not just the idea of the ou…
FCFrançois Chollet166.6K views5.2K engagements
- X · 23 days ago#3
Arguing that "consciousness arises from a computational substrate, and since AI models are computation, they are likely conscious," is as meaningless as arguing that "living creatures are made of atoms, and since this…
FCFrançois Chollet236.6K views3.6K engagements
- X · 14 days ago#4
If you explained agriculture to folks in SF, you'd blow so many minds. It's... self-replicating, recursively self-improving nanotech for the physical world. And it's all open-source! One instance can turn into hundred…
FCFrançois Chollet99.8K views3.4K engagements
- X · 29 days ago#5
The purpose of the AI industry should be to produce tools that, in the human hand, will improve human prosperity and welfare. It should not be to create a "successor species" to the human race. Entertaining such a tho…
FCFrançois Chollet147.2K views3.4K engagements
- X · 9 days ago#6
Some observations about the "total" automation of software engineering: 1. There are more software engineers now than in 2025, and demand is growing. 2. Software engineers have never worked harder than they do now. 3.…
FCFrançois Chollet286.7K views3.1K engagements
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